| 摘要 |
<p>The invention relates to a system and method for matching product information with electronic shelf displays (14). The system includes a first database (20,40) at a place where the merchandise items are sold containing information about the items (16), a second database (44) at another place containing identification information about the electronic shelf displays (14), a first computer terminal (12,32) at the one place for downloading the item information, and a second computer terminal (42) at the other place for receiving the downloaded item information and for matching the item information to the electronic shelf display identification information. The system also includes a hand-held scanner (18,38) for obtaining the item information. Item bar code labels are preferably arranged into groups and scanned by group. A programming bar code label may be used to program the scanner (18,38) for each group scan. Electronic shelf display information is also obtained by scanning bar code labels on groups of displays (14). <IMAGE></p> |
